Saunders

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Michael Saunders

Michael Saunders

Michael Saunders is a Research Professor in the Systems Optimization
Laboratory at Stanford University. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science
from Stanford in 1972 (advisor Gene Golub). He is known for his contributions
to mathematical software. He teaches Large-Scale Numerical Optimization
(MS&E 318, CME 338).

Michael Saunders (1944-- ) grew up in Christchurch, New Zealand,
where he received a BSc (Hons) degree in Mathematics at the
University of Canterbury. He was a Scientific Officer at the
DSIR in Wellington, New Zealand, for the period 1966-78.
He received his MS in 1970 and PhD 1972, both in Computer Science
at Stanford University (advisor Gene Golub). He spent
two years at the Stanford Operations Research Department in 1975-76,
and he rejoined the department as a senior research associate
in 1979. He was appointed Professor (Research) in 1987.

The Stanford OR Department evolved into EESOR and finally
Management Science and Engineering. Professor Saunders
is a member of the Systems Optimization Laboratory
(SOL) within
the MS&E Department. He was a faculty member in Gene Golub's
SCCM Program at Stanford, and is now part of its successor,
the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Engineering at Stanford
(ICME).

Professor Saunders was first recipient of the
Orchard-Hays Prize from the Mathematical Programming Society 1985.
He was elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2007.
In 2012 he won the SIAM Linear Algebra Prize (coauthors Sou-Cheng Choi and Christopher Paige)
and was inducted into the Stanford Invention Hall of Fame (coinventors Philip Gill, Walter Murray, Bruce Murtagh, and Margaret Wright)
for Innovation in the Development of Optimization Software.